During the tour, diplomats were introduced to exhibits documenting both the destruction of Jewish communities during the Holocaust and acts of resistance by Jews who chose to fight the Nazis under extreme conditions

The visit was made by Carlos Gustavo Maslaton, a 67-year-old Argentine lawyer and former Buenos Aires city council member, who prayed with one of Damascus’s last remaining Jews under official supervision inside the long-shuttered synagogue

Mary Clarke hurled antisemitic abuse, assaulted diners and damaged property outside a kosher restaurant in central London; judge cites her remorse and role as sole caregiver for her son, suspending a -week prison sentence